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Born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941, near Andrews, South Carolina; son of a tobacco farmer; married Catharina Lodders, a former Miss World and a native of the Netherlands; children: three.

Career

Pop vocalist and recording artist. Worked in butcher shop and performed with street corner harmony group, the Quantrells, late 1950s; signed to Cameo-Parkway label, 1959; appeared on American Bandstand and recorded "The Twist," 1960; appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1961; "The Twist" re-released, 1962; other top-ten recordings related to dance steps, 1962-63; touring artist, late 1960s-; recorded version of "The Twist" with rap group the Fat Boys, 1988.

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Chubby Checker is an enthusiastic promoter of his place in history. "Since I recorded 'The Twist,'" he told the Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, "people have never danced [close] together again, whether it was to my music or somebody else's. That, to me, is as important in music as electricity is in the world of lighting. I'm the tires the cars roll on." To some observers, on the other hand, Checker happened to be in the right place at the right time to ride a dance craze to the top--"a lucky clown," in the words of Entertainment Weekly's Ty Burr. The truth lies somewhere in between. Checker's recording of "The Twist" was one of the definitive recordings of the 1960s and a huge success by any standard. And though Checker is almost exclusively remembered for "The Twist," he was more than a one-hit wonder, placing 33 songs on the U.S. pop charts in the 1960s and bringing seven of them to the Top Ten.

The son of a tobacco farmer, Chubby Checker was born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941, near Andrews, South Carolina, in the state's coastal lowlands. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his family when he was eight. As a boy he shined shoes, and in high school he worked in a butcher shop plucking chickens. An early indication of his talent came when customers noticed his skill at impersonating the leading vocalists of the early rock and roll era--Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and, above all, a wildly successful New Orleans singer Checker admired, Fats Domino. Soon Checker was interested in music and performing with a streetcorner-harmony group, the Quantrells.

His first break came when the butcher shop's owner introduced him to local recording entrepreneur Kal Mann. The recording industry in Philadelphia at the time was in the early stages of becoming a youth-culture hit machine that would spawn the careers of such figures as Fabian, Bobby Rydell, and Frankie Avalon; and Checker, still known as Ernest Evans, was quickly signed to the Cameo-Parkway label and given the chance to record. A song called "The Class," on which Checker offered various impersonations, failed to crack the charts in 1959.

The style-making rock-and-roll-oriented television program, American Bandstand, with the perennially popular Dick Clark as host, was based in Philadelphia. Clark, on the lookout for new talent and alert to new dance trends emerging in the African American community, booked Evans on the show to perform what would become his signature song. "The Twist" had originally been recorded by the Detroit rhythm-and-blues singer Hank Ballard, but had been released with little success. Clark's wife rechristened Evans "Chubby Checker," deriving the name from that of Fats Domino and alluding to Checker's own portly build and, in October of 1960, Checker appeared in American Bandstand. Although his recording of "The Twist" was almost a note-for-note replica of Ballard's, it was Checker's version that topped the charts nationwide.

The innovative dance that accompanied the song with its hip-swiveling moves caught the spirit of rock and roll. Its unusual configuration, with dancing couples not touching each other but instead merely facing each other and displaying their own individual styles, seemed to offer a new spirit of freedom.

Chubby he may have been to begin with, but Checker lost thirty pounds as a result of demonstrating the Twist in concerts and media appearances over the next year. The singer enjoyed several more top ten hits in 1961, all of them drawing on the dance craze that Checker had already done much to set in motion. These included "Let's Twist Again," "The Fly," and "Pony Time." The latter provided Checker with another Number One hit. By October of that year, Checker was a bona fide national star, and received an invitation to sing and dance "The Twist" on the television program that still, seven years after it had made a superstar of Elvis Presley, reflected and formed the tastes of Middle America: he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in October of 1961.

Checker's actual recording of "The Twist" had cooled somewhat by this time, but this television appearance prompted Cameo-Parkway to reissue the song. It once again rose to the top of the charts, remaining there for thirteen weeks at the beginning of 1962. "The Twist" remains the only song of the modern era to rise to the Number One chart position in two separate releases, and based on chart performance it has been counted among the top singles of all time.

In 1962 and 1963, Checker continued to hit the top ten regularly, playing a part along the way in popularizing new dances such as the Limbo and the Hucklebuck. In 1963 he married Catharina Lodders, a former Miss World from the Netherlands. His popularity finally sagged, along with that of many other American performers, during the British invasion years of the middle 1960s. Since then, Checker has made several comeback attempts, with only moderate success. He cracked the U.S. pop top forty with a cover of the Beatles's "Back in the U.S.S.R." in 1969, and with a rap remake of "The Twist" in 1988, undertaken, appropriately enough, in collaboration with the group the Fat Boys. That recording rose to the Number Two chart position in Great Britain.

The secret to Checker's longevity as a pop icon was due less to new recordings than to his indefatigable energy as a touring performer. In the late 1960s, with his career at a low ebb, Checker put together a band and went on the road. "I said, 'What do you got? You've got the Twist,'" he recalled in conversation with the Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. "If you've got lemons, you make lemonade. Stop frowning. You keep your nose to the grindstone, be honest about your business and your fans will wake up."

For much of the rest of the century, Checker spent well over two hundred nights a year on the road, making occasional movie and television appearances. Vigorously defending the rights to his prize property, he several times engaged in court wrangles over rights to "The Twist." By the century's end, "The Twist" was an indelible part of American culture, but Checker had not slackened his pace of personal appearances. In the year 2001 he appeared as himself on the hit television series Ally McBeal, performing in a bar that was hosting a Twist contest.

Works

Selected discography

Twist, Cameo, 1960.
Twistin' Round the World, Cameo, 1961.
Your Twist Party, Cameo, 1961.
Let's Twist Again, Cameo, 1962.
For Twisters Only, Cameo, 1962.
For Teen Twisters, Cameo, 1962.
Don't Knock, Cameo, 1962.
Limbo Party, Cameo, 1963.
Chubby Checker's Biggest Hits, Cameo, 1963.
Beach Party, Cameo, 1963.
Chubby Checker in Person, Cameo, 1963.
Folk Album, Cameo, 1964.
The Change Has Come, MCA, 1982.

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Born Ernest Evans, October 3, 1941, in Spring Gulley, SC; son of a tobacco farmer; married Rina Lodder in 1964; children: three.

Worked as a shoe shiner and in a produce and poultry business in Philadelphia, PA. Recording artist and concert performer, 1959—. Appeared in television commercials.

Addresses: Manager—Tony DeLauro, 1650 Broadway, Suite 1011, New York, NY 10019.

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Deemed "one of the pop-cultural symbols of the early ’60s" by Hugh Boulware in the Chicago Tribune, Chubby Checker is practically synonymous in the minds of most music buffs with the 1960s dance craze, the Twist. Though rhythm and blues singer Hank Ballard had recorded "The Twist" earlier, it was Checker’s version of the song that became the most popular and spread the dance throughout the world. "What we started in the ’60s set the stage for what is still going on," Checker told Boulware. "We invented dancing apart." Checker continued to capitalize on the twist—which he described to Jon Bowermaster in Newsday as a movement akin to "drying your butt with a towel while grinding out a cigarette"—and other dances during the early 1960s with such follow-up hits as "Limbo Rock," "Pony Time," and "Let’s Twist Again."

Checker was born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941, in South Carolina. Moving with his family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when he was eight years old, the youngster became a shoe shiner and was earning $60 a day at the age of nine. He then turned to the chicken-plucking business for a time while amassing fame in his neighborhood for his accurate impressions of singers Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley. Performing at work, in church, and on the streets by night with his harmonizing group, the Quantrells, Chubby—as he was nicknamed because of his portly build—was eventually offered a recording contract by Cameo Records.

Checker’s first two singles for Cameo, "The Class" and "Dancing Dinosaur," failed to attract much in the way of public notice. As Ballard’s version of "The Twist" began to gain favor with dancers, Cameo decided to have Checker make a cover recording of it. Fortunately, Philadelphia, Cameo’s locale, was also home to Dick Clark’s nationally televised dance show American Bandstand. Chubby landed an appearance on the popular program, earning the surname "Checker" from Clark’s wife, who likened the singer to Fats Domino, and ensuring a wide audience for his catchy song and dance routine. As Ed Ward put it in his book Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll, it wasn’t long before the performer "claimed the top slot on the pop charts," despite the fact that "it was a nearly identical copy" of the other artist’s version, "right down to Ballard’s signature cry of eee-yah."

And the twist dance craze didn’t let up as fast as others. When teenagers’ interest in the song abated, adults began to request it in clubs, perhaps because the dance itself "was so simple," in Ward’s words. As Checker’s popularity grew among adults, he was invited to sing "The Twist" on The Ed Sullivan Show; this induced Cameo to re-release the single, and at the

beginning of 1962, it once again climbed to the top of the charts. Between its two release dates, "The Twist" was Number One for a total of 40 weeks.

Banking on the huge popularity of the twist, Checker followed his hit tune with a succession of similar songs, including "Twistin’ USA," "Let’s Twist Again," "Twist It Up," and "Slow Twistin," and had six Top Ten hits between 1961 and 1963. Though the singer tried to inspire such dance crazes as the hucklebuck, the pony, the fly, the slop, and the limbo, like many other U.S. musical acts of the 1960s, he suffered from the impact of British groups on the music industry. Nevertheless, Checker enjoyed continued success as a club performer. "I got a trailer, four musicians, and hit the road," he recalled to Boulware. "I realized that if I was going to continue to make bucks in this business, I had to forget about the stardom and start at the bottom."

Checker made a recording comeback in 1982, releasing the album The Change Has Come under the MCA label, but fans seemed more interested in hearing him perform his older songs at nostalgia concerts than having him put out new material. Like other musical acts of his heyday, Checker has profited from a revival of interest in early rock and roll, tirelessly touring over 300 days a year with his band the Wildcats. But the singer still finds time for recording; he saw a re-release of "The Twist"—performed with the rap group Fat Boys—break into the Top 20 in 1988.

Checker has also earned visibility among television audiences with his 1990 appearances in commercials for Oreo cookies, in which he links his famous twist dance with the idea of twisting apart the two-layered treat. In an effort to secure his rights to the use of "The Twist" for commercial purposes, he held a press conference in January of 1992 and announced a $17 million lawsuit against McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada for using the song in a television advertisement without his consent. The singer still holds ambitions for another Number One hit and reflected to Boulware, "If you look at the twist as the top of my life… forget about it. There’s so much more Chubby Checker that I’m just dying to tell the world about."

Selected discography

Singles; on Cameo Records
"The Class," c. 1959.
"Dancing Dinosaur," c. 1959.
"The Twist," 1960.
"Pony Time," 1961.
"Let’s Twist Again," c. 1962.
(With Dee Dee Sharp) "Slow Twistin’," c. 1962.
"Limbo Rock," 1963.

Albums; on Cameo Records except where noted
Twist, 1960.
Twistin’ Round the World, 1961.
Your Twist Party, 1961.
Let’s Twist Again, c. 1962.
For Twisters Only, c. 1962.
For Teen Twisters, 1962.
Don’t Knock, 1962.
Limbo Party, 1963.
Let’s Limbo More, 1963.
Chubby Checker’s Biggest Hits, 1963.
Beach Party, 1963.
Chubby Checker in Person, 1963.
Folk Album, 1964.
Chubby’s Dance Party, Dominion.
The Change Has Come, MCA, 1982.

Sources
Books
Stambler, Irwin, The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul, St. Martin’s, 1989.
Ward, Ed, Geoffrey Stokes, and Ken Tucker, Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll, Summit Books, 1986.

Periodicals
Atlanta Constitution, May 28, 1985.
Chicago Tribune, March 16, 1989.
Maclean’s, December 30, 1991.
Newsday, December 15, 1985.
People, April 5, 1982.
Rolling Stone, January 23, 1992.

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Chubby Checker was the unrivaled king of the rock & roll dance craze; although most of the dances his records promoted -- the Pony, "the Fly," and the Hucklebuck, to cite just three -- have long since faded into obscurity, his most famous hit, "The Twist," remains the yardstick against which all subsequent dancefloor phenomena are measured. Born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941, in Spring Gulley, South Carolina, he worked in a local poultry shop while in high school, and while on the job often entertained customers by singing and cracking jokes. His workplace antics helped win an audition with the local Cameo-Parkway label, who signed the fledgling singer in 1959; at the suggestion of no less than Dick Clark's wife, the portly youth was re-christened Chubby Checker, the name a sly reference to Fats Domino.

Checker's first single, "The Class," showcased his skills as an impressionist; while the record became a minor novelty hit, none of its immediate follow-ups were successful. In 1960, however, he recorded "The Twist," a cover of a 1958 Hank Ballard & the Midnighters B-side; Checker's rendition de-emphasized the original's overtly sexual overtones, focusing instead on the song's happy-go-lucky charms. The single rocketed to number one during the autumn of 1960, remaining on the charts for four months; some time after it dropped off, it slowly returned to prominence, and in late 1961 it hit number one again; the only record ever to enjoy two stays at the top more than a year apart. After "The Twist" first made Checker a superstar, he returned to the top in 1961 with "Do the Pony"; that same year, he also reached the Top Ten with "Let's Twist Again," which assured the dance's passage from novelty to institution.

In addition to 1961's "The Fly," Checker's other Top Ten hits included three 1962 smashes: "Slow Twistin'," "Limbo Rock," and "Popeye the Hitchhiker." He even starred in a pair of feature films, Twist Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Twist. In total, Checker notched 32 chart hits before the bubble burst in 1966; as interest in dance novelties dwindled, he briefly turned to folk music, and became a regular on the nightclub circuit. From the 1970s onward, he was a staple of oldies revival tours; in 1982, more than a decade after his last studio LP, he signed with MCA and issued the disco-inspired The Change Has Come, scoring a pair of minor hits with the singles "Running" and "Harder Than Diamond." In 1988, Checker returned to the Top 40 for the first time in a quarter century when he appeared on the Fat Boys' rap rendition of "The Twist," and he continued touring regularly throughout the decade to follow. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

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Background information
Birth name	Ernest Evans
Born	(1941-10-03) October 3, 1941 (age 70) Spring Gulley, South Carolina
Origin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Genres	Rock and roll
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1959–present
Labels	Parkway, MCA
Website	ChubbyChecker.com

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans, October 3, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist". In September 2008 "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958.^[1]

Contents

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Later years
4 Film and musical depictions
5 Hit songs
6 References
7 Bibliography
8 External links

Early life

Ernest Evans was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina. He was raised in the projects of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he lived with his parents and two brothers.^[2] By age eight Evans formed a street-corner harmony group, and by the time he entered high school, learned to play the piano. He would entertain his classmates by performing vocal impressions of popular entertainers of the day, such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Fats Domino.^[3] One of his classmates and friends at South Philadelphia High School was Fabiano Forte, who would become a popular performer of the late 1950s and early 1960s as Fabian.^[2]

After school Evans would entertain customers at his various jobs, including Fresh Farm Poultry on Ninth Street and at the Produce Market with songs and jokes. It was his boss at the Produce Market, Tony A., who gave Evans the nickname "Chubby". The store owner of Fresh Farm Poultry, Henry Colt, was so impressed by Ernest's performances for the customers that he, along with his colleague and friend Karl Mann, who worked as a song-writer for Cameo-Parkway Records,^[4] arranged for young Chubby to do a private recording for American Bandstand host Dick Clark. It was at this recording session that Evans got his stage name from Clark's wife, who asked Evans what his name was. "Well", he replied, "my friends call me 'Chubby'". As he had just completed a Fats Domino impression, she smiled and said, "As in Checker?" That little play on words ('chubby' meaning 'fat', and 'checkers', like 'dominoes', being a game) got an instant laugh and stuck, and from then on, Evans would use the name "Chubby Checker".^[5]

Career

Checker privately recorded a novelty single for Clark in which the singer portrayed a school teacher with an unruly classroom of musical performers. The premise allowed Checker to imitate such acts as Fats Domino, The Coasters, Elvis Presley, Cozy Cole, and Ricky Nelson, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian as The Chipmunks, each singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Clark sent the song out as his Christmas greeting, and it received such good response that Cameo-Parkway signed Checker to a recording contract. Titled "The Class", the single became Checker's first release, charting at #38 in the spring of 1959.

Checker introduced his version of "The Twist" at the age of 19 in July 1960 in Wildwood, New Jersey at the Rainbow Club, "The Twist" went on to become the only single to top the Billboard Hot 100 twice, in two separate chart runs. (Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" had done so on Billboard's earlier chart.)

"The Twist" had previously peaked at #16 on the Billboard rhythm and blues chart, in the 1959 version recorded by its author, Hank Ballard, whose band The Midnighters first performed the dance on stage. Checker's "Twist", however, was a nationwide smash, aided by his many appearances on Dick Clark's American Bandstand, the Top 10 American Bandstand ranking of the song, and the teenagers on the show who enjoyed dancing the Twist. The song was so ubiquitous that Checker felt that his critics thought that he could only succeed with dance records typecasting him as a dance artist. Checker later lamented:

"...in a way, "The Twist" really ruined my life. I was on my way to becoming a big nightclub performer, and "The Twist" just wiped it out.. It got so out of proportion. No one ever believes I have talent."

—Chubby Checker

Chubby Checker during a TV interview in 2008

Despite Checker's initial disapproval, he found follow-up success with a succession of up-tempo dance tracks and produced a series of successful dance-related singles, including "The Hucklebuck" (#14), "The Fly" (#7), "Dance the Mess Around" (#24), and "Pony Time", which became his second #1 single. Checker's follow-up "twist" single, "Let's Twist Again", won the 1961 Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Solo Vocal Performance. A 1962 duet with Dee Dee Sharp, "Slow Twistin'", reached #3 on the national charts. "Limbo Rock" reached #2 in the fall of 1962, becoming Checker's last Top Ten hit.

Checker is the only recording artist to place five albums in the Top 12 all at once. The performer has often claimed to have personally changed the way we dance to the beat of music, as when he told Billboard, "Anyplace on the planet, when someone has a song that has a beat, they're on the floor dancing apart to the beat. And before Chubby Checker, it wasn't here." Clay Cole agreed: "Chubby Checker has never been properly acknowledged for one major contribution to pop culture—Chubby and the Twist got adults out and onto the dance floor for the very first time. Before the Twist dance phenomenon, grownups did not dance to teenage music."

In 1964, he married the Dutch model Catharina Lodders, who was Miss World in 1962. Checker continued to have Top 40 singles until 1965, but changes in public taste ended his hit-making career. He spent much of the rest of the 1960s touring and recording in Europe. The 1970s saw him become a staple on the oldies circuit, including a temporary stint as a disco artist. In 1983, he fathered a daughter, Mistie, with Pam Bass. Mistie Mims is currently a professional women's basketball player in the WNBA.^[6]

Later years

His material during his 1960s heyday was recorded for Cameo-Parkway Records and along with the label's other material, became unavailable after the early 1970s because of the company's internal legal disputes. For decades, almost all compilations of Checker's hits consisted of re-recordings. A dance-floor cover version of The Beatles' "Back in the U.S.S.R." was released in 1969 on Buddah Records, but only charted at #82. It was Checker's last chart appearance until 1982 when he hit #92 with "Running".

He also recorded a psychedelic album in the early '70s that was initially only released in Europe. Originally the album was named Chequered!, but was renamed New Revelation in later releases. To this day, Checker dislikes talking about the album.

Despite his mixed feelings towards his biggest hit single, Checker has always been able to capitalize on its enduring popularity. In 1987, he recorded a new version of "The Twist" with rap trio The Fat Boys. The lyrics to this new version implied he was pleased with his association with it. Checker also sang the song in a commercial for Oreo cookies in the early 1990s. In 2008, he performed "The Twist" in venues ranging from the Daytona 500 to The Opie and Anthony Show.

In 2002, Chubby Checker protested to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that his hit "The Twist" was receiving lack of airplay, claiming that "Peppermint Twist receives more airplay". Seymour Stein, president of the Rock Hall's New York chapter and member of the nomination committee, claimed "I think that Chubby is someone who will be considered. He has in certain years."^[7]

In 2008 Chubby Checker's "The Twist" was named the biggest chart hit of all time by Billboard magazine. Billboard looked at all singles that made the charts between 1958 and 2008.

Checker had a single at #1 on Billboard's dance chart in July 2008 with "Knock Down the Walls". The single also made the top 30 on the Adult Contemporary chart. He continues to perform on a regular basis.

In 2009, Checker recorded a public service announcement (PSA) for the Social Security Administration to help launch a new campaign to promote recent changes in Medicare law. In the PSA, Checker encourages Americans on Medicare to apply for Extra Help, "A new 'twist' in the law makes it easier than ever to save on your prescription drug plan costs."^[8]^[9]

Film and musical depictions

Chubby appears as himself in the 1989 Quantum Leap episode entitled "Good Morning, Peoria" where he walks into a radio station in 1959 hoping to have his demo record played on the air. The show's main character, Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) convinces the station owner to play the song "The Twist".

In 2001 he again guest-starred as himself singing "The Twist" in season 4 of Ally McBeal.

Hit songs

Chubby Checker

1959:

"The Class" (#38).

1960:

"The Twist" (#1)
"The Hucklebuck" (#14)

1961:

"Pony Time" (#1)
"Dance the Mess Around" (#24)
"Twistin' U.S.A." (#68)
"Let's Twist Again" (#8)
"The Fly" (#8)
"The Twist" (recharted at #1 in January 1962)
"Jingle Bell Rock" (with Bobby Rydell) (#21)

1962:

"Slow Twisting'" (with Dee Dee Sharp) (#3)
"Dancin' Party" (#12)
"Limbo Rock" (#2)
"Popeye The Hitchhiker" (#10)

1963:

"Twenty Miles" (#15)
"Let's Limbo Some More" (#20)
"Birdland" (#12)
"Twist It Up" (#25)
"Loddy Lo" (#12)
"Hooka Tooka" (#17)

1964:

"Hey, Bobba Needle" (#23)
"Lazy Elsie Molly" (#40)

1965:

"Let's Do the Freddie" (#40)
"Baby Baby Balla Balla" (with Dutch band ZZ & the Maskers)
"Stopping is Las Vegas" (with Dutch band ZZ & the Maskers)

1982:

"Running" (#92)

1988:

"The Twist (Yo, Twist!)" (with the Fat Boys) (#16)

2008:

"Knock Down the Walls" (#1 Dance, #29 Adult Contemporary)

References

^ News.yahoo.com (dead link 27 January 2012)
^ ^a ^b Chubbychecker.com
^ Biography.com
^ Classic.bands.com/Chubby
^ Classicbands.com/checker
^ WNBA.com: Mistie Bass Bio
^ [1]^{[dead link]}
^ "Public Service Announcements for Television". Press Office, Social Security Administration. http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/psa-video.html. Retrieved January 8, 2010.
^ "Social Security Videos". Press Office, Social Security Administration. http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/psa-video.html. Retrieved January 8, 2010.

Bibliography

Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990, Record Research Inc., P.O. Box 200, Menomonee Falls WI, 1991 (ISBN 0-89820-089-X)
Joel Whitburn's Top R&B Singles 1942–1988, Record Research Inc., P.O. Box 200, Menomonee Falls WI, 1988 (ISBN 0-89820-069-5)

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Name	Checker, Chubby
Alternative names	Evans, Ernest
Short description	Singer
Date of birth	3 October 1941
Place of birth	Spring Gulley, South Carolina
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